Fascinating article. I love posts with this type of in-depth investigation into what everyone else would just pass over and not even think about. It's not sur

Fascinating article. I love posts with this type of in-depth investigation into what everyone else would just pass over and not even think about. It's not surprising that it's related to the gaming industry. Some of the best AWS re:Invent videos I've seen are in the GAM (gaming) track. Even though I've never worked in that field, the problems they get hit with and are solving often are very relevant to any high-traffic site. Because of the extreme volume and spikiness of gaming workloads, they tend to find a lot of edge cases, gotchas, and what I'll call anti-best practices (situations where the "best practice" turns out to be an anti-pattern for one reason or another, typically cost).